PattyCatty Stokes
@kittywampuss.bsky.social
Kittywampus on the Twit app. Came here for feminism & cats. Sticking around for the fight for democracy & the rule of law. Anti-Dark Enlightenment.
Would rather be dancing to Phish.
Would rather be dancing to Phish.
Pinned
I have two kitties. They produce plenty o’ poop every day in roughly 5 minutes. Far more efficient than shitting all over Twitter.
They sleep 16+ hours per day and spend at least 4 vying for space on my lap.
Catturd? I’m so sorry to say you are doing it wrong.
Get offline and touch litter.
They sleep 16+ hours per day and spend at least 4 vying for space on my lap.
Catturd? I’m so sorry to say you are doing it wrong.
Get offline and touch litter.
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If anything counts as a smoking gun, it’s this email.
“i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with Donald and I raping her”
“i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with Donald and I raping her”
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
If anything counts as a smoking gun, it’s this email.
“i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with Donald and I raping her”
“i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with Donald and I raping her”
Victims can consent to revealing otherwise private/redacted material. If they have that material in their personal possession, they can do it directly. This happened in a sexual harassment case on my campus where the perp would have escaped except that the victims released the investigation report.
Redaction immediately following "Trump is gross" is intriguing. Remember that the principal justification for redactions is protecting the victims. Here it would be important to pursue the question of why this was redacted and whether the victim will consent to revealing what lies beneath.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Victims can consent to revealing otherwise private/redacted material. If they have that material in their personal possession, they can do it directly. This happened in a sexual harassment case on my campus where the perp would have escaped except that the victims released the investigation report.
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Ms. Leavitt, just because we can all see right through him, that doesn't mean he's being transparent.
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Ms. Leavitt, just because we can all see right through him, that doesn't mean he's being transparent.
I love this so much, I’m now ruminating about my own weird pedantry and/or erudition
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I love this so much, I’m now ruminating about my own weird pedantry and/or erudition
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I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives
October 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives
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This is very good
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is very good
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Texans. Remember that the next time you say we deserve this administration.
October 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Texans. Remember that the next time you say we deserve this administration.
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They have nothing to charge them with because these are fishermen, and it’s not illegal to survive an unprovoked murder attempt by a foreign military.
Those men are super dangerous drug smuggling terrorists, which is why . . . we are letting them go.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
U.S. Is Repatriating Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
They have nothing to charge them with because these are fishermen, and it’s not illegal to survive an unprovoked murder attempt by a foreign military.
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Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.
What we have is an appropriations king.
Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.
What we have is an appropriations king.
Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.
October 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.
What we have is an appropriations king.
Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.
What we have is an appropriations king.
Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.
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But I was told trump was going to make things cheaper
October 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
But I was told trump was going to make things cheaper
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Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees
Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results
If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one
Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results
If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one
October 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees
Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results
If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one
Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results
If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one
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It's going up to $40 billion.
USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.
USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.
October 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
It's going up to $40 billion.
USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.
USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.
Almost certainly AI. But it’s also true that cats will try to teach their hapless humans to hunt.
My dear kitties had a mouse cornered earlier this week but it slipped away.
Just in case, I won’t leave any pots unattended on my stove until the mouse resurfaces.
My dear kitties had a mouse cornered earlier this week but it slipped away.
Just in case, I won’t leave any pots unattended on my stove until the mouse resurfaces.
October 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Almost certainly AI. But it’s also true that cats will try to teach their hapless humans to hunt.
My dear kitties had a mouse cornered earlier this week but it slipped away.
Just in case, I won’t leave any pots unattended on my stove until the mouse resurfaces.
My dear kitties had a mouse cornered earlier this week but it slipped away.
Just in case, I won’t leave any pots unattended on my stove until the mouse resurfaces.
I love this beyond all rational measures.
I played in the Stanford Band in college, before Silicon Valley became a nest of right-wing vipers.
I would so love to bring this energy to No Kings this weekend, except I lack a band. Also, my horn-playing chops are mincemeat for lack of practice.
I played in the Stanford Band in college, before Silicon Valley became a nest of right-wing vipers.
I would so love to bring this energy to No Kings this weekend, except I lack a band. Also, my horn-playing chops are mincemeat for lack of practice.
October 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I love this beyond all rational measures.
I played in the Stanford Band in college, before Silicon Valley became a nest of right-wing vipers.
I would so love to bring this energy to No Kings this weekend, except I lack a band. Also, my horn-playing chops are mincemeat for lack of practice.
I played in the Stanford Band in college, before Silicon Valley became a nest of right-wing vipers.
I would so love to bring this energy to No Kings this weekend, except I lack a band. Also, my horn-playing chops are mincemeat for lack of practice.
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The Trump administration won't spend $7.1 billion to prevent millions of people from dying from AIDS but is happy to drop $40 billion to bail out a political ally and the right-wing investors who bet on his flawed economic policies.
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Trump administration won't spend $7.1 billion to prevent millions of people from dying from AIDS but is happy to drop $40 billion to bail out a political ally and the right-wing investors who bet on his flawed economic policies.
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The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than this…
BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.
October 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than this…
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It’s increasingly clear to me that the reason the six reactionaries on SCOTUS won’t commit to definitively resolving issues on the shadow docket is that they reserve the prerogative to apply diametrically different standards should a Democratic president be elected in the future.
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
October 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
It’s increasingly clear to me that the reason the six reactionaries on SCOTUS won’t commit to definitively resolving issues on the shadow docket is that they reserve the prerogative to apply diametrically different standards should a Democratic president be elected in the future.
I endorse this. I urge all protesters to wear silly costumes to ramp up the absurdity to 11.
Protesters getting cuffed should insist on calling the arresting officers “Daddy” just to make them feel weird as hell about the whole thing.
October 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I endorse this. I urge all protesters to wear silly costumes to ramp up the absurdity to 11.
This is why I don’t have drapes in my house. This is perhaps why I should have drapes in my house.
The birthday girl is still enjoying her special day in the Bookiest way possible
October 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is why I don’t have drapes in my house. This is perhaps why I should have drapes in my house.
If Greg Abbott and his cronies have their way, the class will be brought back in a future semester, now titled Cultivating Oppression and Injustice.
Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.
October 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
If Greg Abbott and his cronies have their way, the class will be brought back in a future semester, now titled Cultivating Oppression and Injustice.
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AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
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the basic problem is that it is easier to reproduce an artist's style in almost every detail or answer most questions with like 88% accuracy than to walk up four steps
AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
October 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
the basic problem is that it is easier to reproduce an artist's style in almost every detail or answer most questions with like 88% accuracy than to walk up four steps
This is the way. Completely peaceful with a heavy dose of mockery.
October 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This is the way. Completely peaceful with a heavy dose of mockery.
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Pete Hegseth is a basically a meat cybertruck
September 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Pete Hegseth is a basically a meat cybertruck